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Sheep Skin Rugs

Tip of the day. History flashback for our visitors! A traditional rug hooking uses a special hook similar to a crochet hook to loop the yarn through canvas. The technique itself appeared in North American colonies at the beginning of 19th century. When the pioneers used scraps of fabric to make warm coverings for their floors. Today their handwork of rugs hooking turned into a folk art of creating different stuff for the home interior. Enjoy our tips of the day action and read further on.

For those in search of comfortable fur rugs sheep skin rugs can became a real alternative for Alpaca wool rugs usually used in that cases(The quality of Alpaca wool is high and so are the prices).
The origin of sheep skin rugs material does matter. Sheep skin rug made of American sheeps is warm and very light.

Rugs of Australian sheep are heavier but they are way more robust then American. That is why Australian sheep skin rugs are better to be used in high traffic areas while American in low traffic area but where greater softness is needed(It could be rug for decoration purposes to be be hanged on walls, for example, or small rugs which are not being subjected to touching and walking).


Sheep skin rugs maintenance do not need great efforts. You can even wash your sheep skin rugs using washing machine(Just set it on "wool" mode). The only thing you have to remember about your sheep skin rugs is that heat and direct sun light can heavily damage them.

Protect them from these factors.
Installation process is very simple and you do not need a specialist to place your sheep skin rugs. Just mesure the room you want sheep skin rug to place in and order your rugs according taken dimensions.






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